While unprecedented technological advances have been made in healthcare in areas such as genomics, digital imaging and Health Information Systems, access to this information has been not been easy for both the healthcare provider and the patient themselves. Regulatory compliance and controls, information lock-in in proprietary Electronic Health Record systems and security concerns have made it difficult to share data across health care providers.
The opportunities inherent in mobile technology are dramatically changing the way healthcare business gets done. Healthcare provider professionals are adopting mobile devices and tablets as an alternative to desktops/laptops and using mobile applications to augment gaps in existing patient management system capabilities. Developing mobile applications for the healthcare industry has some unique challenges, particularly protecting your backend data services while making them available to mobile application frameworks and SDKs.
Monthly Archives: January 2014
How Cloud-Based Systems Can Reduce Your HR Burden
Keeping up with the day-to-day HR needs of a growing workforce can significantly affect your efficiency. Paperwork, approvals, requests for information and staying compliant: all take you away from your strategic focus. A cloud-based HR system can help remove the administrative stress from your growing HR needs and allow you to concentrate on your business.
You already use the cloud
It’s amazing how many people are aware of ‘The Cloud’ but don’t know they’re using it, over 75% of businesses are in, or are looking to move to the cloud for a variety of reasons.
But first, if you’re on Facebook, Twitter, shop online or bank online you are actually more familiar to the cloud then you already know. They all use the cloud because it’s simple, it’s mobile and pretty much anyone can use it, working in real time makes your life easier. This is why HR is moving to the cloud, for the same reasons you use the above; Instant access, easy to use. Cloud makes business simple!
How Cloud-Based Systems Can Reduce Your HR Burden
Keeping up with the day-to-day HR needs of a growing workforce can significantly affect your efficiency. Paperwork, approvals, requests for information and staying compliant: all take you away from your strategic focus. A cloud-based HR system can help remove the administrative stress from your growing HR needs and allow you to concentrate on your business.
You already use the cloud
It’s amazing how many people are aware of ‘The Cloud’ but don’t know they’re using it, over 75% of businesses are in, or are looking to move to the cloud for a variety of reasons.
But first, if you’re on Facebook, Twitter, shop online or bank online you are actually more familiar to the cloud then you already know. They all use the cloud because it’s simple, it’s mobile and pretty much anyone can use it, working in real time makes your life easier. This is why HR is moving to the cloud, for the same reasons you use the above; Instant access, easy to use. Cloud makes business simple!
Racemi Named Finalist in Tech Trailblazer Awards
Racemi, a provider of automated server migration software that streamlines the process of migrating workloads to public, private, and hybrid clouds, has been named a finalist in the Cloud category of the Tech Trailblazers Awards.
Rose Ross, chief Trailblazer said, “Our esteemed judges and I congratulate all the finalists of the first annual Tech Trailblazers Awards. It was a tough competition. Our fans and the judges will now decide who will be the startups who can say ‘We are Tech Trailblazers’ in the near future.”
Racemi Named Finalist in Tech Trailblazer Awards
Racemi, a provider of automated server migration software that streamlines the process of migrating workloads to public, private, and hybrid clouds, has been named a finalist in the Cloud category of the Tech Trailblazers Awards.
Rose Ross, chief Trailblazer said, “Our esteemed judges and I congratulate all the finalists of the first annual Tech Trailblazers Awards. It was a tough competition. Our fans and the judges will now decide who will be the startups who can say ‘We are Tech Trailblazers’ in the near future.”
Dropbox Outage Postmortem: Not Hacked, Just Another Maintenance Fiasco
From Dropbox:
…On Friday at 5:30 PM PT, we had a planned maintenance scheduled to upgrade the OS on some of our machines.
…In this case, a bug in the script caused the upgrade to run on a handful of machines serving production traffic.
…some master-slave pairs were impacted which resulted in the site going down.
…We were able to restore most functionality within 3 hours, but the large size of some of our databases slowed recovery, and it took until 4:40 PM PT today for core service to fully return.
Cloud Backup & Disaster Recovery Predictions for 2014
2013 was a banner year for cloud backup adoption. It was also a year of wake-up calls: simple cloud backup doesn’t constitute DR, transfer speeds are vital, and beware cloud as a commodity. Let’s look to 2014 for more trends in cloud backup and DR in the cloud.
This trend showed up in the news as well-known cloud backup vendors ceased production. Symantec Backup Exec Cloud was the biggest casualty of slow performance, and more cloud hosting products struggled or went down because they were not optimized for speed of backup or recovery.
Just offering a backup to cloud option isn’t enough anymore. Users appreciate the scalability and cost-effectiveness of the cloud but they also want the same level of performance in backup and restore that they had on-premise. Native cloud optimization for the Internet and high data transfer speeds are the only way to achieve this performance level.
Monetizing Cloud Services Brokerage | Part 3
In a previous blog on Cloud Services Brokerage (CSB), I promised to return briefly to the topic of CSB monetization.
The term CSB can refer to both to the activity of brokering cloud services, or to the software application (or suite of applications) used to manage that activity. The activity of brokering cloud services can be carried out within an enterprise, as an internal support function, or performed as a paid-for service by a third party. So just to be clear, the discussion in today’s blog is all about the monetization of CSB as a service when provided by a CSB service provider.
The scope of CSB need not be limited to Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). To provide a complete cloud service, a broker might also offer IaaS and/or PaaS. The CSB service might also include desktop tools to help the customer, and also some good old-fashioned consulting.
Top 13 API Integrity / Cloud Testing Resources of 2013
With the “API economy” dominating the headlines in 2013, it’s no surprise that Parasoft saw a surge of interest in how to ensure API reliability, security, and performance. Here’s a recap of the 13 most-accessed API Integrity resources from 2013…
API Integrity: How Buggy Are Today’s APIs? [Infographic] This infographic highlights some interesting findings from Parasoft’s research on API Integrity…
The Cloud Name System – Addressing Architecture for the Internet of Things
Another 2014 prediction is the evolution and emergence of the ‘Cloud Name System’, a directory system for Cloud applications in the same way DNS (Domain Name System) works for the web and email.
Lori Vittie wrote a while back about the need for an ‘SNS’ – a Service Name System, a DNS type directory approach but for Cloud Services so that they can be entirely loosely coupled from their IT infrastructure.
Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the web, himself described a scenario of ‘Socially Aware Cloud Storage‘ that applies this same ideal of abstraction to our personal data across all the social networks we use. This refers to a distributed (Cloud) storage service that is used to store personal user data for social networks, rather than the social sites holding it themselves.